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Yes, yes it will. I've quite 3 times so far, currently working on my 4th. The problem, every time and no matter how long I quit, was that I was out with friends drinking and a couple of them were smoking. I thought "What's just one?". Every single time, start smoking regularly again.

It is extremely risky at best, especially when you haven't even been off them a month right now.

I got away with having just one cigarette a couple of times during my 17 year quit. Then the third time I tried it, I got hooked again for another 17 years. Taking another puff was by far the stupidest thing I have ever done.

i thought i could do it. had the occasional smoke maybe one every other weekend when seeing friends. fast forward to a bachelor party, smoked about a half a pack. six months later, just quit two weeks ago. i kept finding a reason to buy "just one more pack" - don't do it. and good luck!

No sorry. They are not designed to be used casually. They are engineered to be habitual. I quit for 4 months. Decided one wouldn't hurt. I smoked one then crushed the pack in my hands. The next day, bought another pack, crushed that pack. One turned to two, then crushed that pack. After about the 10th pack crushed, I eventually felt it was stupid to waste all these perfectly good cigarettes! So, I stopped crushing them. Started smoking them again.

Depends. Some people get more easily addicted than others. I know two of my friends who never got addicted and smoked for example 2-3 months, then stop for a year without experiencing any withdrawal symptoms.... then smoke again, and so on.

It's a bad idea. If it were any other drug besides nicotine, that "one time" would be wildly considered a mistake. Heroin addict, just an occasional shot? Cocaine addiction, just an occasional line? Our society screwed up by allowing one of the most addictive substances on earth to be commercially available and advertised... I truly believe that. Don't mistake society's "occasional" acceptance for what's really going on.

I've also lost just about every one of my previous quit attempts to this mentality. After you're done smoking you immediately start metabolizing and coming down from the high. If you're here, it means you realized long ago that you cannot control it... what can you call giving in to get one more buzz? Anything but a backslide? I don't know. All those old receptors you built up in your brain are still there, and all it takes is a few drags to get over half of them re-saturated and firing again (there's pictures of MRI scans that track the nicotine receptor displacement on WhyQuit)

I've relapsed several times. For a while I was off of cigs for years, and then got back on after I started to have legal problems. Then I stopped a few times, then I would think that, I could just have a drag, and then I fell back into it. Stay away from the smokes.